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Who says coal and cows don't go together?

RELATIONS between miners and farmers in New South Wales' Hunter Valley have been fraught to say the least. Results from a cattle grazing study being conducted at Rio Tinto Coal & Allied's Hunter Valley Operations shows they might be able to get along.

Noel Dyson
Who says coal and cows don't go together?

At a final weigh-in this week 10 steers that spent the past 18 months on land rehabilitated by Rio Tinto were found to be 150kg heavier on average than cattle grazed on unmined farming land. The cattle...

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